Andreada Pisa

Andrea da Pisa, or Pisano, a sculptor and architect, born in 1270. He was employed to carry out Giotto's designs for the facade of Santa Maria del Fiore at Florence, where he also constructed fortifications, and made the bronze gates that are now at the side entrance of the Baptistery. Some of the decorations of St. Mark at Venice are his work, as are those of the Baptistery of Pistoja. He died in 1345, leaving a son, Nino, who was as distinguished as his father.